Yamamoto Story 4 - Jason Komoda

A topic I may be interested in for these next couple of weeks is whether or not it's possible to program AI to have human-like emotions.  In story 4, Illianthos was programmed to not have any emotions, yet towards the end of the chapter Yamamoto made us question ourselves whether he actually did start to feel some type of emotion, even if it was just the slightest bit.  Also, in story 3 Shalice was programmed to not have any emotions too, but Strong Eye was intentionally programmed to have emotions.  This is a fictional story, but what if we can eventually do this in real life and one day AIs emotions will be so realistic that humans will actually start to consider them as humans, or maybe even generate some sort of feelings towards them. 

Throughout the stories that we've read, the AIs learned by feedback loops.  They keep talking to real humans and overtime they start to understand how humans think and start to develop their own human-like thoughts.  Even when I read this story (although its fiction), I sometimes forget that the AI aren't actually humans because what they are saying and how they are talking seems so realistic.  Also, the further I get into each story the more open I become to the fact that these AIs are actually capable of having emotions because of the way the stories start and end. 

I definitely think that it's eventually possible to program AI to have human-like emotions because of feed-back loops and machine learning.  With better technology and more brilliant people working in this area of study, it's only a matter of time that we'll reach some sort of breakthrough with AIs.  What if they can become so realistic that they can have a positive impact in people's lives just by talking to them and letting them express their feelings to them?  That's hopefully the goal, but it also might be scary because people might become too attached and dependent on them. 

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